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R.D. Blackmore
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Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825-1900).
Was born in Longworth, Berkshire, the third son of a clergyman. His mother and some of his other family members died of a typhus epidemic when he was four mouths old and he was initially brought up by his grandmother.
He had epilepsy and had a troubled childhood. He was bullied. He went to Oxford where he proved himself a clever student and an excellent chess player. He studied law but his fear of an epileptic attack in open court made him nervous of barristry.
He married in secret to Lucy Maguire in 1853 because her Irish Catholic background was unacceptable to his family. He taught for two years and barely managed to get by. He received a legacy from an uncle that allowed him to buy 16 acres of orchard land. He started writing in 1854
Book List in Order: 30 titles
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The Maid of Sker
- 1872
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R.D. Blackmore was a 19th century British author during the Victorian era. Blackmore’s works are noted for their depiction of English society similar to other authors of his time including Thomas Hardy. This edition of The Maid of Sker ...
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Alice Lorraine
- 1875
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Subtitled 'A Tale of the South Downs' this sensation novel by the author of 'Lorna Doone', first published in book form 1875 following serialisation in Blackwood's Magazine from 1874-75, is set in Sussex and Spain during the Napoleonic Wars....
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Cripps, The Carrier
- 1876
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Title: Cripps, the Carrier. A woodland tale.
Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions
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Mary Anerley, a Yorkshire Tale
- 1880
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Take a trip back in time to nineteenth-century Yorkshire in this emotionally engaging tale from British author R.D. Blackmore. Mary Anerley follows the life of the protagonist of the same name as she faces down the challenges of coming of age in an i...
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Christowell
- 1881
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In the fresh young vigour of an April sun, the world has a cheerful aspect, and is doubly bright, and vastly warmer, when beheld through good flint-glass. Especially while the east winds hold, which never now forget to hold the spring of England, hea...
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Springhaven
- 1887
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A sweeping novel of the Napoleonic Wars by the author of Lorna Doone.Capt. Caryl Carne, half French and half English, has returned to the coastal town of Springhaven in Sussex, home to his ancestral castle, which now lies in ruins. In secret communic...
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Kit and Kitty
- 1889
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...
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Perlycross
- 1894
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...
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Tales from the Telling-House
- May-1896
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Sometimes of a night, when the spirit of a dream flits away for a waltz with the shadow of a pen, over dreary moors and dark waters, I behold an old man, with a keen profile, under a parson’s shovel hat, riding a tall chestnut horse up the western ...
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The Short Stories Of RD Blackmore
- Dec-2009
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The Short Stories Of RD Blackmore. The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not...
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Clara Vaughan
- Aug-2013
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“How that deed was done, I learned at once, and will tell. By whom and why it was done, I have given my life to learn. The evidence laid before the coroner was a cloud and fog of mystery. For days and days my mother lay insensible. Then, for weeks ...
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Lorna Doone
- Nov-2017
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This classic novel of farmers, outlaws, and forbidden romance beautifully evokes seventeenth-century rural life in England’s West Country.Amidst the social and religious upheaval of seventeenth-century England, the once-noble Doone family has been ...
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Cripps, the carrier. A woodland tale
- Feb-2018
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Cripps the Carrier: a woodland tale, is a novel by Richard Doddridge Blackmore, author of Lorna Doone. It was first published in 1876 and is set in and around the village of Beckley in the rural area of Headington just outside Oxford to the east and ...
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Dariel, a romance of Surrey
- Feb-2018
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An English novelist, known professionally as R. D. Blackmore, was one of the most famous English novelists of the second half of the nineteenth century. He won acclaim for vivid descriptions and personification of the countryside, sharing with Thomas...
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We of the Never Never
- Jun-2021
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Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor (1869) is a novel by Richard Doddridge Blackmore. Praised by some of Victian England’s leading authors, including Robert Louis Stevenson, George Gissing, and Thomas Hardy, Lorna Doone was published anonymous...
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Erema; Or, My Father's Sin
Although R.D. Blackmore is most strongly associated with romantic fiction set in the bucolic English countryside, this novel deviates significantly from his typical formula. Set in the harsh desert environment of the Western U.S. in the mid-1800s, Er...
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Fringilla - Some Tales Iin Verse - Pictured by Louis Fairfax-Muckley - With III Drawings by James Linton
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
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George Bowring
Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825-1900), referred to most commonly as R. D. Blackmore, was one of the most famous English novelists of his generation. Over the course of his career, Blackmore achieved a close following around the world. He won litera...
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Cradock Nowell, a Tale of the New Forest
Title: Cradock Nowell. A tale of the New Forest.
Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions
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Crocker's Hole
Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825 -1900), known as R. D. Blackmore, was one of the most famous English novelists of the second half of the nineteenth century. He won acclaim for vivid descriptions and personification of the countryside, sharing with ...
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Frida or the Lover's Leap a Legend of the West Country
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....
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Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor (1869) is a novel by Richard Doddridge Blackmore. Praised by some of Victian England’s leading authors, including Robert Louis Stevenson, George Gissing, and Thomas Hardy, Lorna Doone was published anonymously and s...
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Slain By The Doones
Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825-1900), referred to most commonly as R. D. Blackmore, was one of the most famous English novelists of his generation. Over the course of his career, Blackmore achieved a close following around the world. He won litera...
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A Woodland Tale
The little village of Beckley lies, or rather lay many years ago, in the quiet embrace of old Stow Wood, well known to every Oxford man who loves the horn or fusil. This wood or forest (now broken up into many straggling copses) spread in the olden t...
